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Lee Daniels


American
December 24, 1959
Actor
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'Shadowboxer' was based on my life.


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I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.'


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Tags: Make Wanted Black
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I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills.


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Tags: Always Man Pay
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When you have a lot of siblings, you always do something to feel special.


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The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena.


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Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone.


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I think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color.


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I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances.


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I'm not really vegan. I'm vegan-ish. I have a piece of lamb every now and then.


Lee Daniels
Tags: Really Every Then
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My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto.


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Tags: Mom Get Out
I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels.
Lee Daniels
Tags: Great Had Some
I don't profess to be Shonda Rhimes by any stretch of the imagination, or Dick Wolf. They're icons. I'm a filmmaker.
Lee Daniels
My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender.
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Tags: Dad Mom She
I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back.
Lee Daniels
Tags: Movies Know Them
I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre-Spike Lee and post-blaxploitation era.
Lee Daniels
Tags: Like While Worked
Most of my friends are dead. I watched friends die in my arms at 5, 6, 8. When I grew up, the rest of my friends died of AIDS.
Lee Daniels
Tags: Up Most Friends
I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film.
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Here's the thing: I think the media underestimates the intelligence of the moviegoer. We need to be fulfilled. People want to sit down and think, and I try to make people think.
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In L.A., I was a talent manager for many years. I represented many African-American actors. After a while, I became disheartened over the shortage of roles for African Americans.
Lee Daniels
Tags: Years Many Over
I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.
Lee Daniels
Tags: Like Always Never
To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture. We're making a movie. We're making it like we're putting on a play.
Lee Daniels
Tags: You Like World
My earliest experience was reading Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' at 8, you know, with a bunch of kids on my steps - on the stoops - and knowing that I wanted to direct them saying the lines. I don't really know how to articulate that 'cause there wasn't someone to show me.
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Tags: Experience You Me